Antirattling fastening device



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Patented Apr. 13, 1926.

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AMOS F. 'LADWIG AND CARL A. LARSON, OLE W'ATERLOO, IOWA.

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Application filed May 21, 1925. Serial No. 31,884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, A3108 F. LADNIG and lARL A. Larson, citizens of the United States, residing at Waterloo, in the county of Black Hawk and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antirattling Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in fastening devices, and the object of our improvement is to supply releasable locking means for apposed bodies, which means when locked are so positioned and relatively arranged as to be tightly connected and therefore not loose to rattle about when the connected bodies are being transported to and fro, and our invention is therefore especially adapted for such a specific employment as in fastening a motor carhood and the like.

It is to be understood, however, that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed herein without departing from the spirit of the invention, and that the invention can be used for any purpose within the scope of its possibilities.

lVe have effected the above object by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of our invention as-employed to fasten releasably the hood of a motor car to its frame member, other parts of-the car being removed, and Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the parts shown is-said Fig. 1.. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a simplified and modified form of our invention and Fig. 1 isan end elevation thereof, with the lower part of the hasp broken away. I

Similar numerals of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views.

In said Figs. 1 and 2, the numerals 1 and 2 respectively denote apposed portions of a Ford car hood and its frame. The hood is mounted to be lifted swingingly unwardly from the frame 2. Upon the outer side face of the hood 1 a plate 3 is riveted and carries a flat staple 16 with transverse aperture 17 to slidingly receive a bolt part 21, which part is offset from the main body 20 thereof with the latter slidingly and rockingly mounted in a spaced pair of apertured bearing projections 18 also rigidly mounted on said plate.- As shown in Fig. 2, the aperture 17 in the staple 16 is shaped to permit of a limited scope of rocking movement of the Jolt part 21, crank-like, this part 21 being offset farther from the plate 8 than the bolt part 20 to afford clearance below said part 21 for the apertured hasp 10 therebetween. The plate 3 has alined with the bolt part 20 a stop projection 19 to limit the sliding movement of the bolt in that direction.

The hasp 10 is flattened at its upper end to contact with the plate 8 flatly and is then bent in an offset manner outwardly so as to have its main cylindrical body alined with and above a bolt 4 which traverses alined holes in the spaced flanges of the channel-bar frame member 2 of the car. L he upper part of the hasp 10 has a longitudinal aperture or slot 1% punched out, part of the material being removed and the remainder shapedto produce an outwardly projecting curvate lingei piece 15. As shown in Fig. 2, the haspis connected to the bolt 4 hingedly and alsotensionally by the following connection. The lower part of the hasp is hollowed at 11 to receive a headed rod 9 therein surrounded by a coiled compression spring 18, and the spring is engaged between the head of the rod 9 and an inwardly directed fillet 12 on the hasp. The lower end ofthe. rod 9 has an eye 8 roekingly mounted on a crossbolt or pintle 6 which traverses alined holes in fin-cations 7 which are part of a cylinder The upper end of said belt at is seated in the hollow of the cylinder 5 and secured therein by a head on the bolt to permit of rocking the cylinder on the bolt, while the connection at the pintle 6 provides a hinge on which the hasp 10 may be swung to and from the plate 3, and the spring 13 gives a tensioi'iing device. whereby the hasp can be extended to permit it to pass its aperture 1 1 about the staple 16 to let the upper edge of the aperture engage a notch. in the staple when the hasp is released and the springreacts. 'The belt part 20 has a pair of orificed seats for the lock members 23, one member secured rockingly in one seat, the other removably seated slidingly from the other seat, to allow the lock 22 to thereby be locked to the intrmediate pair of fixed projections 18 when the bolt part 21 is seated in the aperture 17 of the staple 16. When the lock 22 is so locked in position to said projections 18, it may be slightly rocked downwardly together with the bolt 2021. On the padlock 22 is fixed one end of a spring snap or catch 2%. The lower part of the plate 3 is bent outwardly with a reversed curve and has along its lower edge a narrow flange 25 directed toward the plate 8. When the pad-' lock 22 is pushed rockingly downwards, its spring catch member 2 will pass yieldingly about said flange so that its upwardly bent tip will grasp the flange edge and thus releasably engage the padlock therewith, whereby the lock is prevented -from swinging loosely or knocking and disagreeably rattling while the car is rapidly moving or jolting over uneven surfaces.

In Figs. 3 and 4-. is illustrated a simplified modification of the invention, wherein a padlock 22 has its looped bolt member 23 passed through an aperture 17 in the staple 16 after the apertured hasp 10 is mounted upon the staple. In order to prevent loose rattling of the padlock, a spring bar 27 has one end fixed to the plate 3 spaced from the under edge of the staple'16, and is carried thence curvingly near the staple edge and upwardly to have its upper inwardly bent end or terminal 29 inserted mo'vably in a slit 30 in the staple. This permits the bar 27 to resiliently yield toward the staple. The middle part oi this bar 27 is concaved at 28. he padlock body is at opposite upper angles medially notched at 26, whereby when the padlock is swung down, the notches 26 receive the bar 27 to prevent looseness or play sidewise, while compressing the spring bar until passing into the concavity 28 thereof, the bar binding and holding the padlock tightly to prevent its rattling. \Vhen the padlock is swung upwardly, it is easily released from the spring bar 27, the clearance in the slit 30 permitting inward movement of the bar terminal 29.

This device with any needed change can be used on other cars than the type mentioned, as also in securing any other apposed objects together separably.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising the combination with separable objects, of an apertured projection fixed on one object, a hasp connected to the other object and apertured to receive said projection, an apertured bearing-body fixed on the firstmentioned object, a bolt mounted slidably in said bearing-body to reinovably traverse the aperture oi said projection to lock the hasp thereon, and means for releasably locking said bolt in engagement with said pr0- jection to also look said hasp therewith.

A device of the character described, comprising the combination with separable objects, of an apertured projection fixed on one object, a hasp hingedly tensionally connected to the other object and apertured to receive and releasably tensionally interlock with said projection, an apertured bearingbody fixed on the first-mentioned object, a bolt mounted slidably in said bearing-body to removably traverse the aperture of said projection to lock the hasp thereon, and means for releasably locking said bolt in engagement with said projection.

3. A. device of the character described, comprising the combination with separable objects, of an apertured projection fixed on one object, a hasp connectedrnovably to the other object and apertured to receive said projection, an apertured bearing-body fixed on the first mentioned bject, a bolt mounted slidably in said bearing-body to removably traverse the aperture of said projection to lock the hasp thereon, engaging-means on the firstanentioncd object, and releasable locking-means for locking said bolt in engagement with said projection and in releasable cushioning tensional cngagen'ient with said engaging-means.

4. In a device of the character described, a staple, a hasp apertured to receive the staple, a padlock having a bolt member to be releasably connected interlockingly with said staple, and a tensioning spring device engaged by and operative on said padlock to hold it releasably and without relative movements when the padlock is positioned to lock said hasp to said staple.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

AMOS F. LADWIG. CARL A. LARSON. 

